Hi,
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:55:31PM +0530, Vipul Mathur wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 06:27:13PM +0530, Abhiram Singh kushwah wrote:
> > could anybody please help me how to mount usb x drive (the ultimate storage
> > device) in linux .
>
> Most USB mass storage devices are mounted as virtual scsi devices.
> When you insert the drive into the USB port, do a dmesg and look for
> messages telling you about the kernel reacting to the USB device.
> You will see something like "Attached USB Mass Storage device as /dev/sda1"
> Now as root, create a mountpoint (say /mnt/xdrive) and mount the drive as:
> # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/xdrive
> # cd /mnt/xdrive
> # ls
>
> You should see the contents of your drive.
Sorry for the followup to my own post but missed something important
in the first one.
One must do a 'sync' and 'umount /mnt/xdrive' before removing
the USB device or data corruption may occur!
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